Professor Sue Ziebland

Professor Sue Ziebland is Dean of Welfare and a Governing Body Fellow at Green Templeton College. She is also Chair of the Student Welfare Committee from October 2021. She is Professor of Medical Sociology and Co-Director of the Medical Sociology and Health Experiences Research Group (MS & HERG), Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford.

Sue is one of the UK’s leading medical sociologists with a well-established career in primary care and health research. She is an NIHR (National Institute for Health Research) Senior Investigator emerita and was the national Programme Director for NIHR Research for Patient Benefit from 2017 to 2022.

She is a founding member of the DIPEx International collaboration which includes 14 countries worldwide, all conducting research based on the methods she and her colleagues developed in Oxford. She is committed to understanding experiences of health and care and then using this understanding to make a difference to how care is delivered.

Public facing outputs from her work on experiences of health and social care can be seen on the platforms hexi.ox.ac.uk,  healthtalk.org and socialcare.talk.org

Contact in capacity as Dean of Welfare: dean@gtc.ox.ac.uk

PA: Elizabeth Woolliams
elizabeth.woolliams@phc.ox.ac.uk